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GeForce RTX 5070 vs Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare the GeForce RTX 5070 and Radeon RX 7800 XT on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

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The short answer

The Radeon RX 7800 XT is the better value, though the GeForce RTX 5070 is the faster card at 1440p.

  • GeForce RTX 5070 is about 17% faster at 1440p (gaming index 57 vs 49).
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 34%.
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT delivers about 14% more frames per dollar at 1440p.
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT carries more VRAM (16GB vs 12GB), an edge at 4K and in memory-heavy games.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

1440p gaming
GeForce RTX 507057
Radeon RX 7800 XT49

GeForce RTX 5070 is about 17% faster at 1440p.

Performance per dollar

1440p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

GeForce RTX 5070

6.2

per $100 spent

Radeon RX 7800 XT

7.1

per $100 spent

Better value

Specs head-to-head

GeForce RTX 5070
Radeon RX 7800 XT
Price (from)
$909.00
$680.00
1440p gaming index
57
49
VRAM
12GB GDDR7
16GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
672 GB/s
624 GB/s
Boost clock
2512 MHz
2430 MHz
Shader cores
6,144
3,840
Ray tracing cores
48
60
Tensor / AI cores
192
120
TDP
250W
263W
Recommended PSU
650W
700W
Upscaling
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation, DLSS 5 Neural Rendering
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
Architecture
Blackwell GB205
RDNA 3 Navi 32
Process node
TSMC 4N
TSMC N5/N6
MSRP
$550.00
$499.00

Productivity & compute

GeForce RTX 5070
Radeon RX 7800 XT
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
56,472
49,707
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
5,300
4,153
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
183,188
160,731
Render-Blender (samples/min)
6,164
2,476

Where to buy

Radeon RX 7800 XTfrom $680.00
From$680.00
1 version in stock
GeForce RTX 5070from $909.00
From$909.00
24 versions in stock

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